The real link, not news article, is from EFF Org. Doing the Lord's work!

https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

My wife would just sell my data.

"Penlink's main product, Tangles, already scrapes social media and online accounts; Webloc adds the ability to tie those "anonymous" mobile IDs to specific people, at specific places, without a judge ever hearing about it."

So there's crazy use of data brokering right there. No warrant or subpoena needed.

Man, I setup Immich for my whole family, a RAID6 of enterprise drives with about 10TB total available storage, and 1TB/user. I've got symmetrical 1Gbs fiber, too. Does anyone use it? No. The last get together I told them if anyone wanted help setting it up, I wouldn't mind. And no takers really. I said it's easy enough anymore with a 1TB SSD being <$100 it'd last a very long time they could back up too that, far more than Google allows... Nope...

It's insane to me that nobody wants to change, but when these companies change on everyone, they just let it happen.

You see, that's by design though. It's meant to be insignificant so it flies under the radar of almost everybody.. And the few that oppose lol like the crazies wearing the tinfoil hats, etc.

It's partially why i believe all media is covering "the war" and not Epstein files, the upcoming draft, or anything else that's going to completely ruin so many other lives in this country.

Mark my words: "We're all sheep, walking orderly to the slaughter with tiny screens in our hands distracting us with our fake voices arguing online thinking we're making a difference."

Gen Z just isn't gullible like others, and neither are Millenials or Gen X. The other generations have a few wealthy C suite idiots that apparently speak up for everybody, which is not accurate in anyone truly wanting AI... They're (Gen Z) also being fucked from the get-go and don't want this dystopian bs anymore.

I'm sure this is a great video, seriously, not being a douche, but he talks very fast like it's sped up or something and makes it too uninteresting or unappealing to listen to. While I can appreciate not wasting time with a bunch of sponsor plugs or shameless ads, I just can't do it.

My other biggest gripe: what happens to business computer users at the office? What about their admins? How much extra work is this going to create???

Let me comment before finishing the article: this is a software's lack of security problem, not a young teenager's problem.

The fact they were breached, that's nothing new. Same goes for everyone's SSN under the sun, who cares?! The fact that a young person is owning up to it now, they have to punish and make such a big example out of him, it distracts from the failure of big tech...

Edit: another reason not to put all your eggs in one basket. PowerSchool is an American tech company, public on NYSE in 2021, and now owned by Bain Capital... Would you PLEASE THINK OF THOSE INVESTORS!!!

Good for the half that's fighting it!!

Did you know: you can fully sign out of Google on your phone and still use it? You can download an alt app store like F-Droid for most apps, or use APKeep from EFF to get those certain app installers. Or Aurora store, but I'm less familiar with that, and assume it's the same principle as APKeep. I also recommend NetGuard to individually handle what apps are allowed to use internet access.

Either way, you may not be able to fully remove Google from Android without a custom ROM, but there's still a lot you can do.

Maybe Session was doomed from the get go with such high expenses!